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UCL Lunch Hour Lectures: 70 years of sharing our knowledge

27 February 2012

For the past 70 years - since 1942 - UCL has been running lunchtime lectures for the general public. The lectures, given by UCL academics on a wide range of subjects, are free to enter and offer an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at UCL.

Today they are as popular as ever, taking place twice a week during term time. UCL’s Lunch Hour Lectures were listed at number one on a list of the Guardian’s ‘Ten of the Best Ways to Spend your Lunch Break’.

This was a brilliant, lively lecture. It was clear that a personal passion had inspired the rigorous research in this lecture, which was a joy to watch.

All Lunch Hour Lectures are available to watch live online and around 200 people per week access the lectures in this way. They can also be watched after the event on YouTube and are subtitled for accessibility to a global audience, with almost 175,000 uploads of lectures on UCL’s YouTube channel so far.

This summer, UCL Lunch Hour Lectures are going on tour to the British Museum, with four lectures running every Thursday in June. These lectures will be introduced by British Museum curators and will highlight collaborative work being done across both organisations, continuing the UCL tradition of working alongside other institutions to produce world-class research

Bookings are now open for the summer lectures via the British Museum’s website. More information can be found at the links below. Lunch Hour Lectures also have a Facebook page and can be followed on Twitter.